Skirball's Chazan Wins Grant from AVI CHAI Foundation

Robert Chazan, a professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science and affiliated with Steinhardt's department of Humanities and Social Sciences, has won a grant in the amount of $172,000 from the AVI CHAI foundation for a project entitled "Improving the Teaching of Jewish History in North American Jewish Day Schools."

The new, twelve-month project is devoted to improvement in the teaching of Jewish history in Jewish day schools at the high-school level. The project will bring together teams of teachers from seven to eight major Jewish high schools, will assist them in defining the current status of their Jewish history teaching and their aspirations for change, will provide an intensive week-long summer workshop for all participants, and will carefully monitor progress during the ensuing school year. The key liaisons to these schools will be students in the Doctoral Program in Education and Jewish Studies at the NYU Steinhardt, who will simultaneously implement and study change in the participating schools.